COVID-19 sadly killed off Indian’s plans for the 2020 centenary of its iconic Scout model’s birth to be celebrated with a series of global parties, with the result that it passed almost unnoticed. Still, the ongoing showroom success of what is the Minnesota firm’s bestselling current model since making its born-again debut in 2015 with its liquid-cooled 1133cc 60º V-twin eight-valve engine, thus hastening the demise of Harley’s air-cooled OHV Sportster, will have helped make up for that as far as the marque’s current owner Polaris is concerned.
A conservative but astutely managed Midwestern company, Polaris’ management today could hardly be more different than the bunch of spivs who ended up running the Indian Motocycle (sic) Company into the ground during the Teens and Twenties of the last century. For…
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